Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention Month 2018

Objective:

To involve all twelve counties within The Purple Door’s service area to participate in education surrounding Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month.

Messaging:

Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month is a national and state-wide initiative to create awareness for Sexual Assault and to discuss Prevention.

The Purple Door is encouraging everyone:

Unlock your voice and Open the Door, join a movement to challenge a culture that perpetuates sexual violence and support survivors in speaking their truth. Let’s encourage our community to open the door to services if needed, open the door to a dialogue about the issues, open the door to being an UP-Stander versus a bystander, and open the door to the idea that sexual violence CAN be prevented. The time is NOW to close the door on a society that excuses sexual violence.

Dates:

April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month

An Artful Journey: Honoring Survivors is April 12, 2018

National Crime Victim’s Week April 8-15, 2018

Denim Day 2018 is April 25, 2018

Texas Statistics:

6.3 million Texans have experienced some form of sexual assault in their lifetime.

2 in 5 women in Texas have been sexually assaulted.

1 in 5 men in Texas have been sexually assaulted.

91% of sexual assault victims DID NOT report to law enforcement.

90% of all child victims are sexually assaulted by someone they know.

Over 94% of rapists roam free with only 3% ever spending a day in jail.

National Statistics:

Sexual violence affects women and men. About 1 in 3 women and nearly 1 in 6 men were victims of contact sexual violence at some point in their lives.

Nearly 23 million women and 1.7 million men have been the victims of rape or attempted rape at some point in their lives.

Violence starts early: 8.5 million women first experienced rape before the age of 18. 1.5 million men were first made to penetrate before the age of 18.

In the U.S., more than 27% of women and 11% of men have experienced contact sexual violence, physical violence, and/or stalking by an intimate partner in their lifetime and experienced an intimate partner violence-related impact.